I am a person of habits after all. Despite the enormous variation of coffees that are available In Spain, I always order a Café Americano. Where I could have chosen one of these: Café con leche Cortado Cortado con leche muy caliente Cortado con leche fria Café solo Café Americano Cappuchino Carajillo Café con hielo … Read more
Woot, woot! Finally some rain. And now we realized again why gutters are a really great invention. In the Netherlands, you will hardly discover any house without them. Over here it’s the other way around. Water was streaming from every roof tile which made a spectacular view (from the inside of the house of course). … Read more
For days it has been, what we call, Dutch weather. Humid, cloudy, stuffy. I wish it would rain. Then it would cool down and the garden would be happy as well. But no luck so far. It lights, which is a spectacular view in the dusk, but nothing more. The forecast says there will be … Read more
Do you like to draw your signature? Then you should come to Spain. We had to put more signatures on papers in these past months than in the last 10 years in the Netherlands. And we didn’t make any big purchases yet. I wonder what we will have to sign when we buy a house … Read more
It took us quite some time to figure out the names of the neighbor dogs. I think we are excused since there are 6 of them. After three months I got it: one is called Sjuttup, the other one Stoppit, his mother is called Heidi, and then there is Nonoo and Ej. And they seem … Read more
I am trying to grow plants. The avocado took about 3 months before I could put that in the soil. By the way, that one is thriving now. It has several leaves and looks very healthy. The succulents were easy, which I expected. They had roots within a week. So now I tried some branches … Read more
On a regular basis, I read books about personal development. The latest is “Living by Design” by Nisandeh Neta. One of the pieces of advice in that book is ‘do new things’. From my own experience, I now know that this is very good advice. I have believed for the last couple of years that … Read more
Ai, another message a package has been sent to us and we still haven’t seen anything. That’s the second or the third one that we know of. A solicitor we spoke yesterday remarked that the Correos is functioning so badly, that a lot of his customers let the important letters be sent to him. His … Read more
This strange-looking stuff is Tibicos, better known as water kefir grains or Japanese water crystals. I got it as a present from Sebastian. The stuff grows if you take good care of it, and you’re more or less supposed to pass it on to others once you have too much. And why would anyone take … Read more
They say you only practice hard enough if you are sweating. Well, sweating we are. Strangely enough, I sweat more nowadays than Tom does. In the Netherlands, I hardly sweated at all. It’s not just the temperatures though, but also the fact that we change our practice a lot. At times we walk longer distances … Read more